LEAN and AGILE METHODOLOGIES : THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
Articles and Speaking Engagements:
Gantthead Article May 2006 Getting Started with Agile Delivery
by Sanjiv Augustine
Agile methods (Scrum, eXtreme Programming, Crystal, Feature Driven Development, etc.) have been moving into the mainstream over the past few years. Industry leaders have discovered that, implemented appropriately, agile accelerates project delivery times, increases customer and employee satisfaction, and provides flexibility to changes in business requirements. Read more...
Gantthead Article August 2006 So...How's That Agile Initative Doing?
by Sanjiv Augustine
In my last gantthead article, Getting Started with Agile Delivery, I provided some guidelines to help you get up and running quickly with an agile adoption initiative. In this article, I’ll cover some ways for you to monitor the health of your agile initiative through regular process inspection and adaptation. Read more...
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Agile Development- Agile Project Management: Emergent Order Through Visionary Leadership
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Apply the principles of Agile software development to project management and reap significant rewards. - Getting Value Off-the-Shelf
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How can Agile development and design concepts be applied to COTS (commercial off-the-shelf), or packaged software, implementations? - Usability In XP
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Agile processes like Extreme Programming (XP), widely touted for their developmental efficiency and code quality, have received fewer accolades in the realms of user interface elegance, cohesion and usability.
- Can Your Application Architecture Accommodate Your Changing Business Needs?
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To manage the cost of change, organizations need to be Agile. The key to agility is having adaptable business systems. Building and maintaining adaptable business systems requires Agile development processes.